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Originally Posted by desjardo

I keep seeing all this talk about the coders and paying for VIP to support them... Being a journalist I decided to use my connections in the tech world to examine this quite thoroughly. I spent three weeks talking to and meeting several coders and reps for several manufactuters. In fact this whole thing started due to a conversation with a life long friend who writes codes. Over the years he has tested everything from the HU cards to the NFUSION.... But no where in these investigations could I find any of this money actually going to the coders... Not that I even care. FTA is called that for a reason. The money you spend on your box goes to the manufacturer who in turn, pays coders to keep there boxes running and in turn selling. I think a lot of people on here are being mis lead. The reason people pay for access is CONVENIENCE and nothing more. If you want a convenient link to files for FREE TO AIR satellite then pay, if not spend your hours on free sites waiting to access the files due to overwhelming volum on the site. Me I get my codes emailed from a tester and think at some point we all lost track of this being a fun hobby and not a business. Thats just my two cents... I hope at least someone can read this before it gets deleted as they always edit what they don't like. Is that what you people pay for?

You really couldn't have said this any better. People do pay for the convenience of getting the files here. What paper or site do you write for?